On Second Handers

The thoroughly unpleasant fact of reality is that Hollywood is run by a bunch of unimaginative twerps, the kind of people that Ayn Rand used to call Second Handers.  It's the kind of mentality that wants to maximize profits but is unwilling to try something distinctly new or different. Thus the glut of sequels and the ongoing cinemisation of the successful television series. Even if the project is not a sequel or a series adaptation, the Second Handers still attempt to reduce risk by only combining elements that appeared to have worked in the past. Thus The Adventures of Pluto Nash an movie that combines the elements of Eddie Murphy, Computer Generated Imagery, and the Sci-Fi environment, still turns out to be an unwatchable piece of crap.  When I saw the trailer at the 2002 Convergence, my thought was, oh its Moon Zero Two: The Next Generation.

Opinion

The thoroughly unpleasant fact of reality is that Hollywood is run by a bunch of unimaginative twerps, the kind of people that Ayn Rand used to call Second Handers.  It's the kind of mentality that wants to maximize profits but is unwilling to try something distinctly new or different.  Thus the glut of sequels and the ongoing cinemisation of the successful television series.  Even if the project isn't a sequel or a series adaptation, the Second Handers still attempt to reduce risk by only combining elements that appeared to have worked in the past. Thus The Adventures of Pluto Nash, an movie that combines the elements of Eddie Murphy, Computer Generated Imagery, and the Sci-Fi environment, still turns out to be an unwatchable piece of crap. (When I saw the trailer at the 2002 Convergence, my thought was, oh its Moon Zero Two: The Next Generation.)

Another problem is realism.  While certain liberties can be taken with space operas films set in the real world (including 2001: A Space Odyssey) should be as realistic as possible as permitted by the film's budget.  My own personal BS alarm went off when I saw the trailer for the second Charlie's Angels flick.  It showed a scene where the main rotor on a helicopter gunship began to self deploy.  A mechanism for moving rotor blades from the storage position to the operational position would add weight to the aircraft.  This is a bad thing in military aircraft.  And if the additional weight wasn't an issue a self deploy system would still be useless in the operation context for one very good reason.  Every helicopter operated by an air force or army aviation unit comes with something called a ground crew.  A bunch of people whose job is to open, close, fold, and unfold components and perform maintenance on the aircraft.  When I see a BS element in an advertisement for a movie I as a rule usually tend to avoid seeing it. 

There's the issue of personal aesthetics.  While a brain dead bimbo with obviously fake hair, eyebrows, lips, and breasts may be attractive to the urban pimp and his clientele.  As I've said else where, I find such creatures to be repulsive. something about such such females just says "STAY AWAY" in big ugly letters.  I absolutely refuse to see anything with Angolina Jolie in it, even for free.  That's how put off by cosmetological fakery I am.

 

Idiotcy In Action

Tentpole properties (Star Trek, Star Wars, and Doctor Who) appear to be failing.

The thoroughly unpleasant fact of reality is that Hollywood (and the Media in general) is run by a bunch of unimaginative twerps, the kind of people that Ayn Rand used to call Second Handers.  It's the kind of mentality that wants to maximize profits but is unwilling to try something distinctly new or different.  Thus the glut of sequels and the ongoing cinemisation of the successful television series.  Even if the project isn't a sequel or a series adaptation, the Second Handers still attempt to reduce risk by only combining elements that appeared to have worked in the past.  Thus "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," a movie that combines the elements of Eddie Murphy, Computer Generated Imagery, and the Sci-Fi environment, still turns out to be an unwatchable piece of crap.  (When I saw the trailer at the 2002 Convergence, my thought was, oh its "Moon Zero Two: The Next Generation.")         

Thoughts Of The Day

I could go on about what I really think of peace activists but I'll keep it short by paraphrasing Keith Richards: I don't have a problem with shooting peace activists, I only have a problem with the police.

There're no safe spaces to hide in and the financial supporters of Democrats (like George Soros) will be off sipping their cool drinks on an island that doesn't have an extradition treaty with us.  The defenders of liberal values are called conservatives but opponents of liberal values are now called liberals.  Republicans were sent to Washington to do a job, but they haven't done it. 

How many lies will Joe Biden tell before the election?

The thoroughly unpleasant fact of reality is that Hollywood is run by a bunch of unimaginative twerps, the kind of people that Ayn Rand used to call Second Handers.  It's the kind of mentality that wants to maximize profits but is unwilling to try something distinctly new or different.   Thus the glut of sequels and the ongoing cinemisation of the successful television series.  Even if the project is not a sequel or a series adaptation, the Second Handers still attempt to reduce risk by only combining elements that appeared to have worked in the past.  Thus "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," an movie that combines the elements of Eddie Murphy, Computer Generated Imagery, and the Sci-Fi environment, still turns out to be an unwatchable piece of crap.  (When I saw the trailer at the 2002 Convergence, my thought was, oh its "Moon Zero Two: The Next Generation.") 

Antisemitism in politics is the practical equivalent of a dead canary in a coal mine, I can't say this often enough.  Antisemitism is bad enough, but it's also a symptom of a deeper political problem. 

 

Quote Of The Day

The nice thing about adult film work is you’re allowed to swear when you reply.

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Sewage Alert

I just saw the trailer for the newest Star Trek movie on You Tube and it sucks.